Thursday May 1st

The Independent

The Dilettantes , LSD and the Search for God , Sky Parade (LA)

Psych/Garage/Rock - Psych/Shoegaze - Indie/Alternative

$12 21+ 8pm 

Amnesia

Stitch Craft , Coal Beauterie, Foxtail Brigade (laura Weinbach)

Folk/Acoustic - Indie/Experimental/Folk

$7 21+ 9pm

The Dilettantes 

Foxtail Brigade (Laura Weinbach) 

 Friday May 2nd

Bottom of the Hill

Audrye Sessions , An Angel , Picture Atlantic

Indie/Pop/Glam - Rock/Alt./Indie - Alt./Indie/Rock

$10 ALL AGES 9pm

Edinburgh Castle

Drew Grow (PDX), Death of a Party , VIR

Pop/Garage - Hyphy/Garage - Shoegaze/Rock

$5 21+ 9:30pm 

Fat City

Leilujh , The Fireflies , Love Infinity

Pop/Psych/Electro -  Soul/Rock/Alternative - Pop/Alternative

$10 21+ 9pm 

The Independent

Lyrics Born

Hip-Hop/Funk/Alternative

$25 21+ 9pm 

The Uptown 

Pidgeon , Make Me , The Dashing Suns

Rock/Punk/2 Step - Healing/Easy Listening - Rock 

free, 21+, 9pm (after Art Murmur!) 

Audrye Sessions 

Death of a Party

Leilujh 

Lyrics Born 

Pidgeon 

 Saturday May 3rd

Hemlock Tavern

New Thrill Parade , Naked on the Vague (Sydney AUS), The Late Young

Goth/Grime - Goth/Psych -  Experimental/Goth

$6 21+ 9:30pm 

The Independent

Sean Hayes , The California Honeydrops

Folk/Ambient - Roots Music/Blues/Soul

$17 21+ 9pm 

The Makeout Room

Conspiracy of Beards

A'cappella/Folk/Indie 

$8 21+ 7pm 

Amnesia

Moped

Live/Electronic/Drum&Bass/Hip-Hop

FREE 21+ 9pm 

 The New Thrill Parade 

Sean Hayes

Conspiracy of Beards 

Moped 

 Sunday May 4th

Hemlock Tavern 

Little Wings (Portland OR), The Skygreen Leopards , Hotel Alexis (Portsmouth New Hampshire)

Indie/Folk/Rock - Folk/Pop/Indie -  Folk Rock/Experimental

 $6 21+ 9:30pm

The Skygreen Leopards 

 Monday May 5th

Retox Lounge

Ellul , I Heart Lung (Long Beach), Dominique Leone

Folk/Visual/Electronic - Experimental/Jazz - Electronic/Indie/Experimental

$6 21+ 9pm 

 Tuesday May 6th

Bottom of the Hill

Eric Hutchinson (Maryland), Bart Davenport , Vows

Acoustic/Soul/Pop - Pop/Folk Rock - Pop/Post-Punk/Psych

$10 ALL AGES 9pm 

El Rio

Delipub , The Tousandnames , Hawkeye

Garage/Pop - Indie/Pop - Pysch/Post-Punk/Garage

FREE 21+ 8pm 

Great American Music Hall

Vetiver , Kelley Stoltz , The Mumlers

Rock/Gospel/Visual - Showtunes/Folk Rock - Rock/Americana/Folk

$16 ALL AGES 9pm 

 Wednesday May 7th

 Bottom of the Hill

Bellavista , Swann Danger , Red Host

Indie/Psych/Goth - Post Punk/Goth - Black Metal

$8 ALL AGES 8:30pm 

 Thursday May 8th

Hemlock Tavern

Dark Meat (Athens GA), Maus Haus , Pigeons or Panthers

 Psychedelic - Synth/Psych/Dub - Experimental/Troplical/Psych

$7 21+ 9:30pm 

Rickshaw Stop

Wallpaper , Sugar and Gold , Hot Tub

Electro/Hip-Hop/Experimental - Funk/Soul/Electro - Punk/Crunk/Funk

$10 21+ 9pm 

Maus Haus 

Wallpaper 

 Friday May 9th

Hemlock Tavern 

The May Fire , The Lonely H (Port Angels WA), Blammos 

Garage/Alt./Rock - Americana/Indie -  Pop/Rock/Soul

$6 21+ 9:30pm 

Hotel Utah

Leslie and the Badgers (LA), Harbours , Pillars of Science

Folk Rock/Americana/Country - Rock/Psych/Folk Rock - Rock/Psych/Pop

$8 21+ 9pm 

The Gilman

Judgement Day , Birdmonster , Ninja Academy , Desa ,  Build Us Airplanes

Black Metal/Progressive/Classical - Rock - Experimental/Drum&Bass -Rock - Indie

$7, all ages, 7:30 pm 

The May Fire 

Harbours 

Judgement Day 

 Saturday May 10th

Hemlock Tavern

We Be The Echo , Ninja Academy (LA), Hey Three Eyes

Progressive/Experimental/Metal - Garage/Metal/Indie - Hardcore/Pop

$6 21+ 9:30pm 

Bottom of the Hill

Borts Minorts (Atlantis), Dead Hensons , Unpopable (LA)

Experimental/Rock/Electronic -  Indie/Pop/Rock - Experimental/Blues/Soul

Cafe Du Nord

Felonious , Forrest Day

Hip-Hop/Lyrical/Funk - Indie/Rap

$10 21+ 9:30pm 

Fat City

Moped , Flowmotion

Emotronic/Drum & Bass/Hip-Hop

$8 21+ 8:30pm 

The Independent

Mike Relm , Vin Sol

Hip-Hop/Comedy/Psych - Electro/Club

$13 adv. $15 at door 21+ 9pm 

We Be the Echo 

Dead Hensons 

Felonious

Moped 

Mike Relm 

 Sunday May 11th

Make Out Room

Rademacher , El Olio Wolof , The Boxing Lesson (Austin TX)

Indie/Rock - Garage/Folk Rock - Psych/Rock

$7 21+ 8pm early show 

 Monday May 12th

Bottom of the Hill

Efterklang (denmark), Slaraffenland (denmark), Winterbirds (SF)

Experimental/Pop/Other - Alternative/Rock.Folk - Folk/Indie

$12 door, all ages, 9pm

 Tuesday May 13th

Cafe Du Nord

Return to Mono , Fun Machine, Anon Day , Excuses For Skipping

Electronica/Rock - Hip-Hop/IDM/Electro - Indie/Rock/Alternative

$10 21+ 9:30pm 

Amoeba, Berkeley

Vetiver

Folk/Indie 

free, all ages, 6pm 

 Wednesday May 14th

  Rickshaw Stop

Port O'Brien , Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Springfield,MI), Girls  

Folk/Acoustic/Indie - Pop - Folk/Rock/Tropical

$10 adv $12 at door 21+ 8pm 

Elbo Room

Toy Soldiers , Buttercream Gang , The Dead Westerns

Electro/Pop/Rock - Indie/Post-Punk/Afro-Beat - Psych/Folk

$7 21+ 9pm 

 Thursday May 15th

Bottom of the Hill

Social Studies , BOAT (Seattle WA), The Attachments

Indie/Pop/Rock - Indie/Pop/Soul - Indie/Pop/Rock

$8 21+ 9pm 

Edinburgh Castle

Silver Pines (san marcos TX), Mountainhood , Bird by Snow

Psych/Trance/Shoegaze - Folk/Psych/Indie - Folk/Roots

$5 21+ 9:30pm 

111 Minna Gallery

Von Iva , The Federalitst , Leopold and His Fiction

Synth/Soul/Big-Beat - Indie/Rock/Country - Garage/Rock/Blues

$7 presale/$4 for AAU students(w/i.d.)/ $8 at door 21+ 8:30pm

Rasputin Music, Berkeley

Port O'Brien

Folk/Acoustic/Indie

free, all ages, 5:00 pm 

 Friday May 16th

 Saturday May 17th

Hemlock Tavern

The Show is the Rainbow (Omaha Nebraska), Cryptasize , Pope of Yes

 Breakcore/Funk/Electro - Indie/Soul - Epic/Soul/Visual

$6 21+ 9:30pm 

Great American Music Hall

Built For Sea , Overview , Silian Rail , The Hunderd Days

Indie/Rock - Rock - Other/Visual - Indie/Alternative/Rock

$12 ALL AGES 9pm 

The Uptown

Extra Action Marching Band , Apple Pie Hopes , Michael Musika

Glam/Comedy/Trance - Americana/Comedy/Funk - Indie/Folk/Soul

$12, 21+, 9pm 

The Gilman

xbxrx , Triclops , Surrender

Punk - Visual/Garage/Zouk - 

$7, all ages, 7:30pm 

The Stork Club

The Chop , Man/Miracle , Plasterkatz

Rock/Garage/Indie - Other/Rock - Powerpop/Indie/Rock

$7, 21+, 9pm 

Pope Of Yes! 

Silian Rail 

Extra Action Marching Band 

xbxrx 

The Chop 

 Sunday May 18th

The Makeout Room

The Molloy Family Album , Mylo Jenkins , Johanna Lefever

Folk - Folk - Folk

$7 21+ 8pm early show 

 Monday May 19th

Elbo Room

Prizehog , The New Thrill Parade

Down-Tempo/Dark/Experimental - Goth/Grime

$5 21+ 9pm 

Tuesday May 20th

Hemlock Tavern

Sudden Oak , Ducktails (Western Mass)

Experimental/Noise/Nu-Jazz - Tropical/Psych 

$5 21+ 9:30pm 

The Uptown 

Weasel Walter , Nonet,  

Jazz/Black Metal/Experimental -  Jazz/Experimental

free, 21+, 9pm 

 Wednesday May 21st

WIRETAP MUSIC EVENT 

Thee Parkside

Paranoids , Better Than Aliens , Pope of Yes , Daddy Crimbo 

Dark/Psych/Rock - Indie/Rock - Epic/Visual/Electroacoustic - Rock/Country/PowerPop

$6-20 sliding scale 21+ 9pm

BENEFIT FOR WIRETAP MUSIC AND GENERATION 5 which is a Oakland based non-profit thats goal is to end childhood abuse in 5 generations 

 Thursday May 22nd

Hemlock Tavern

The Sarees , Palms (members of The Finches), Eyes (members of The Finches)

Experimental/Tape Music/Blues - Goth/Folk Rock - Jam/Prog

$6 21+ 9:30pm 

Rickshaw Stop

March Forth Marching Band (PDX), Kid Beyond , The Loyd Family Players  

Big Beat/marching band - Electro/Pop/Beat Box - Samba/Big Beat

$12 21+ 8pm 

Fat City

Thousandnames , Gabe Gonzales , Delipub , VIR

Indie/Rock - Alt./Indie/Folk - Pop/Garage - Shoegaze/Rock

$10 21+ 8pm 

The Independent

The Cave Singers (Seattle WA), The Botticellies , Triumph of Lethargy Skinned to Death (Seattle WA)

Folk/Indie - Psych/Pop/Surf/Rock - Garage/Psych/Trash

$12 21+ 8pm 

 Friday May 23rd

Bottom of the Hill

Von Iva ,  The Blacks , The Bruises , Astra Heights

Big-Beat/Electro/Rock - Rock/Rock - Indie/Rock/Pop - Rock/Indie/Pop

$10 ALL AGES 9pm 

Cafe Du Nord

Rosin Coven , Vagabond Opera (PDX), Jessican Fichot (LA)

Lounge/Goth - Indie/Jazz/Experimental - Folk/Jazz/French Pop

$15 21+ 9:30pm 

Fat City

Zodiac Death Valley , The Silent Treatment

Gospel/Country/Psych - Rock

$10 21+ 9pm 

Kimos

The Blank Tapes , fpodbpod

Indie/Garage/Folk Rock - Psych/Folk Rock

$7 21+ 9pm 

Fort Gallery

TeamAWESOME! (colorado) , iji (arizona) , BeatBeat Whisper

Pop - Indie/Pop - Folk/Visual/Acoustic/tape Music 

free, all ages, 8pm 

 Saturday May 24th

Hemlock Tavern

The New Centuries , The Don'ts , Man/Miracle

Indie/Rock - Indie/Experimental/Rock - Other/Rock

$6 21+ 9:30pm 

Kimos

Mammatus, Battlehooch , Prizehog

Prog./Rock/Psych - Psych/Other/Soul/Prog. - Down-Tempo/Goth/Rock

$7 21+ 9pm 

 Sunday May 25th

Bottom of the Hill

Ariel Pink (LA), Cloud Archive , French Disco

Experimental/Psych/Tape Music/lo-Fi - Rock/Visual - Indie/Pop/Alt. 

$10 ALL AGES 9pm 

Great American Music Hall

Cluster (Berlin), Tussle , White Rainbow (PDX)

Ambient/Electronica - Psych/Jam/Trance - Minimalist/Afro-Beat

$19 adv $22 at door ALL AGES 8pm 

Amnesia

The California Honeydrops , Kally Price Band

Roots Music/Soul/Blues -  Blues/Jazz/Country

$6 21+ 9pm 

Fort Gallery

Master Slash Slave , Boy in the Bubble

Electro/Indie/Pop - Indie/Alternative/Acousti

free,all ages, 2 pm

21 Grand

Vivian Girls (NY), Mantles, Experimental Dental School (portland), nrsz (SF)

Punk/Shoegaze/Surf - - Black Metal - Jam Band/Minimalist

sliding scale, all ages, 9:00 pm 

 Wednesday May 28th

Bottom of the Hill

Pela (Brooklyn NY), The Love X Nowhere , Audio Out Send

Rock - Indie/Rock/Psych - Big Beat/Glam/Rock

$10 21+ 9pm 

 Thursday May 29th

Rickshaw Stop

Sybris (Chicago), Ex-Boyfriends , Unwed Sailor

Indie/Psych/Pop - Post-Punk/Indie/Rock - Alt./Prog/Visual

$10 21+ 8pm 

 Friday May 30th

Hemlock Tavern

Anavan (LA), Casey and Brian , Attractive and Popular (Hot Springs AR)

Experimental/Hardcore/Electro - Live Electronics/Soul/Pop - Experimental/Electro/Rock

$6 21+ 9:30pm 

Edinburgh Castle

Riders of the Blood Red Dawn , Alpha Project , Lucabrazzi

Psyh/Rock/Garage - Surf/Garage/Indie - Rock/Punk/Industrial

$5 21+ 9:30pm 

 Saturday May 31st

Hemlock Tavern

20 Minute Loop , Tartufi , Yes Oh Yes (Seattle WA)

Indie/Rock/Alt. - Indie/Progressive/Experimental - Rock/Indie/Pop

$7 21+ 9:30pm 

Bottom of the Hill

The Heavenly States , Sistas in the Pit , The Dimes (PDX)

Indie/Rock/Garage - Rock/Indie - Indie/Pop/Rock

$10 18+ 9pm 

Rickshaw Stop

Brass Menazeri

Balkin/Brass

$8 before 10pm $10 after 21+ 8pm 

Edinburgh Castle

Hey Three Eyes , Batman vs Predator , Wealthy Whore Entertainment , Drew Swinburne

Hardcore/Pop - Hardcore/Hyphy - Glam/Electro/Punk - Electro/Electroacoustic/Rock

$5 21+ 9:30pm 

Kimos

The Holy Kiss , The Paranoids , Better Maker , Fast Dragon (LA)

Goth/Post-Punk/Blues - Psych/Goth/Prog/Rock - Post-Punk/Americana - Indie/Rock

$7 21+ 9pm 

The Make Out Room

Sonny Smith , The Dry Spells

Folk - Americana/Surf/Folk

$7 21+ 7pm early show